In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it’s time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.
In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it’s time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.
Fun fact, you are exactly 10 bananas tall…
http://bananaforscale.info/#!/convert/length/10/bananas/centimeters
Coming from the USA, yeah fuck the orange shitstain and his oligarch cronies.
After using bananas as a form of measurement, I don’t think you need to clarify that you’re from the USA.
You guys have used football fields, washing machines, and bicycles as units of measurement haha
I find the whole imperial/metric thing funny.
Like hell, even here in the USA, it’s always the 10 millimeter socket (or in my case the 15 millimeter socket) that somehow disappears.
A pendulum of one meter length swings at a rate of once per second.
Where things get weird in the USA is one mile = 5280 feet. Like, who the fuck pulled that number out of their ass?
That’s the imperial system for ya. Imagine using a dude’s feet as a form of measurement. That’s weirder than having it be your fetish
It wasn’t so weird back when people lived in relative isolation without any kind of standards, and had to come up with some sort of reference that was widely familiar and commonly available.
You know, back in the Neolithic Age.
It even makes sense why that familiar set of references would get standardized and then survive up until the beginning of the Industrial Age. Beyond that point it’s all driven by American exceptionalism, a.k.a. willful ignorance. What I don’t understand is what happened to the cubit. Feet make sense for distance, but as a craftsman I don’t want to be foot-fondling my work pieces.
Huh, that’s interesting. Of all things to choose metric, why sockets?
I think the only thing where imperial is common here in (continental) Europe is screen sizes, which you always see in inches, and it’s weird because people have absolutely no feel for how long 55" or whatever is. The other is pipes, though in plumbing is usual to have the equivalent in mm.